Soil Data Explorer - BETIS

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the BETIS soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of BETIS, and applied along 1-cm thick depth slices. Solid lines are the slice-wise median, bounded on either side by the interval defined by the slice-wise 5th and 95th percentiles. The median is the value that splits the data in half. Five percent of the data are less than the 5th percentile, and five percent of the data are greater than the 95th percentile. Values along the right hand side y-axis describe the proportion of pedon data that contribute to aggregate values at this depth. For example, a value of "90%" at 25cm means that 90% of the pedons correlated to BETIS were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
152B	90P0999	90LA011011	Betis	6	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	30.7444439,-93.5124969

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the BETIS soil series. Monthly precipitation (PPT) and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been estimated from the 50th percentile of gridded values (PRISM 1981-2010) overlapping with the extent of SSURGO map units containing each series as a major component. Monthly PET values were estimated using the method of Thornthwaite (1948). These (and other) climatic parameters are calculated with each SSURGO refresh and provided by the fetchOSD function of the soilDB package. Representative water storage values (“AWC” in the figures) were derived from SSURGO by taking the 50th percentile of profile-total water storage (sum[awc_r * horizon thickness]) for each soil series. Note that this representation of “water storage” is based on the average ability of most plants to extract soil water between 15 bar (“permanent wilting point”) and 1/3 bar (“field capacity”) matric potential. Soil moisture state can be roughly interpreted as “dry” when storage is depleted, “moist” when storage is between 0mm and AWC, and “wet” when there is a surplus. Clearly there are a lot of assumptions baked into this kind of monthly water balance. This is still a work in progress.

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the BETIS series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the BETIS series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the BETIS series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Small Shannon entropy values suggest relatively consistent geomorphic association, while larger values suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with BETIS share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the BETIS series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the BETIS series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Shannon entropy values close to 0 represent soil series with relatively consistent geomorphic association, while values close to 1 suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D hills figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with BETIS, arranged according to family differentiae. Hovering over a series name will print full classification and a small sketch from the OSD. Source: snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing BETIS as a major component. Limited to 250 records.

Map Unit Name	Symbol	Map Unit Area (ac)	Map Unit Key	National Map Unit Symbol	Soil Survey Area	Publication Date	Map Scale
Betis fine sand, 5 to 8 percent slopes	BkD	971	1725686	1vxq9	la011	1993	1:24000
Betis fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BkC	659	1725685	1vxq8	la011	1993	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BEE	14026	1724564	2tcp8	la013	1992	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BeC	13445	1724570	30d1g	la013	1992	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BeC	999	571033	30d1g	la015	2005	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 5 to 15 percent slopes	BeE	994	571034	m56g	la015	2005	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 15 to 30 percent slopes	BEF	639	579214	mfqb	la015	2005	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BeC	2941	2805692	30d1g	la017	2013	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BeE	1594	2805693	2tcp8	la017	2013	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BeC	1285	1725252	30d1g	la049	1991	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BEE	842	1725249	2tcp8	la049	1991	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BeC	875	571111	30d1g	la061	1991	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BEE	792	571110	2tcp8	la061	1991	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	Bf	11462	1903094	2tcp8	la069	1983	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Be	8997	1903093	30d1g	la069	1983	1:24000
Betis (eustis) loamy fine sand, 8 to 30 percent slopes	EuE	9196	569953	m42l	la079	1973	1:24000
Betis (eustis) loamy fine sand, 1 to 8 percent slopes	EuC	801	569952	m42k	la079	1973	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BtC	3977	1903024	30d1g	la085	1991	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BTE	2695	1903021	2tcp8	la085	1991	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	Ba	722	1725323	30d1g	la111	1992	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BEE	13299	1725529	2tcp8	la115	1992	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BeC	7980	1725533	30d1g	la115	1992	1:24000
Betis fine sand, 2 to 8 percent slopes	EuD	9317	575132	m9gn	tx001	1970	1:20000
Betis loamy fine sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes	Eb	19812	575329	30n1x	tx073	1949	1:20000
Betis loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes	Ea	9144	575328	30n1w	tx073	1949	1:20000
Betis loamy fine sand, sloping, eroded	Ec	248	575330	m9p1	tx073	1949	1:20000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BtC	18808	575492	30d1g	tx225	1994	1:24000
Betis fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	BlC	20235	575568	m9xq	tx339	1967	1:20000
Betis loamy fine sand	Eu	5743	575580	m9y3	tx339	1967	1:20000
Betis fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	BlD	2634	575569	m9xr	tx339	1967	1:20000
Betis loamy fine sand, 0 to 8 percent slopes	11	5976	575619	30n2t	tx347	1976	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BtB	13300	578204	30d1g	tx401	1993	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 0 to 8 percent slopes	BfC	9120	575743	30n2t	tx419	2002	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 1 to 5 percent slopes	BfB	18501	576175	30d1g	tx617	1983	1:24000
Betis loamy fine sand, 0 to 8 percent slopes	BfA	2440	1894771	30n2t	tx619	2007	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the BETIS soil series. To learn more about how this distribution was mapped, or to compare this soil series extent to others, use the Series Extent Explorer (SEE) application. Source: generalization of SSURGO geometry (updated 2023-10-04).